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one is the song which fiends and angels sing:all murdering lies by mortals told make two.
A promising new “ecumenical” movement in psychiatry attempts to synthesize the two great intellectual traditions, psychoanalysis and neurobiology, so that we may avoid splitting the care of the patient into the partial domains of biotherapy that lacks the understanding of mental interrelations and purely psychological psychotherapy that lacks an appreciation of the embeddedness of mental processes in brain function.
Recent synthetic work is assessed, taking as a point of departure an historic symposium in Pittsburgh, October 26-27, 1984, entitled “Neurobiology and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis Looks Toward the Future.”
The means of representation of meaning (whose description was begun by Freud) in such unconscious material as dreams and folklore show the imprint of the brain function in which they are imbedded. Our afferent and efferent processes, including language,
Dr. Forrest is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist in Neurology, and on the Faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Presented at Grand Rounds, New York State Psychiatric Institute, July 26, 1985; Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, January 30, 1986; and the 30th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, May 9, 1986.